WILLIAM ELLIOTT. 





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PROCEKDINGS OF THE SENATE 



OBITUARY ADDRESSES 



OCCASION OF THE DEATH 



HON. WILLIAM ELLIOTT, 

A SENATOR FROM THE SIXTH DISTRICT 



PE:N^NSYLyA:N^IA. 



HARRISBURG, PA. 

LANE S. HART, STATE PRINTER. 
1881. 



RESOLUTlOxN. 

Jw tli-c enervate, ^m. 3, 18M. 

Resolvea, (If the House of Representatives concur,) That ttiere be printed 
for the use of the Legislature, bound in mushn, tlie following, viz : One thou- 
sand copies of the proceedings in the Senate and obituary addresses relating 
to the death of Charles II. Paulson, late Senator from the Forty-fourtii dis- 
trict; one thousand copies of the proceedings in the Senate and obituary ad- 
dresses relating to the death of William Elliott, late Senator from the Sixth 
district; and one thousand copies of the proceedings in the Senate and obituary 
addresses relating to the death of Cjeorge Duggan Jackson, late Senator from 
the Twenty-fourth district; Hve hundred copies of each for the use of the Sen- 
ate, and hve hundred copies of eacli for the use of the House of Represent- 
atives. 

E.vtract from the Journal of the Senate. 

Chief Clerk. 

In the House, febriiary 4, 1S81. 
The foregoing resolution concurred in. 

cAiDcivVlj ^VDlllvn, 

Chief Clerk House of Representatives. 

Approved — The 28th day of February, A. D. 1881. 



PROCEEDINGS OF THE SENATE 



ON THK DEATH OF 



Hon, William Elliott, 



Its the Senate, 
Thursday, January 13, 1881. 
Mr. GiiADY. Mr. President, now that the Senate 
has fully organized and resolutions are in order, I think 
this is the proper time to call attention to the loss we 
have sustained in the death of our colleague, Senator 
William Elliott, whose district adjoined my own in 
the city of Philadelphia. Seldom is any legislative 
body called upon to mourn the loss of a more dis- 
tinguished member. It was native ability, earnestness 
of purpose, untiring energy, and reliable judgment that 
made Senator Elliott a great man among men. For 
thirty years he had been prominent in political and of- 
ticial circles, during which time the people found in 
liim a worthy trustee— a sagacious representative to 
the popular branch of the Genenil Assembly, at an- 
other time an able Speaker of the same House, sub- 
sequently an eflScient high sheriff of the city and county 
of Philadelphia, and finally at the time of his demise, 



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Senator from tlie Sixth district, honored and respected 
by all. Nor was he only a faithful public servant, he 
was at all times a good citizen, a devoted husband, an 
affectionate father, and for the bereaved ones our sym - 
pathy now goes out. Those of us who were members 
of the last session, painfully saw in his physical ap- 
pearance unmistakable signs that the sands in the glass 
of his eventful and successful life were fast running- 
out, but his iron will and naturally strong constitution 
happily postponed, as it were, the day that must come 
to all men and all living things. He seemed to regain 
part of his strength and improve in health while recre- 
ating at the sea shore, but the work of his terrible dis- 
ease was nearer completion than his appearance for 
the time made it appear ; it had gnawed too long and 
preyed too much upon his vitals to admit of recover^', 
so death's messenger came at last. The Senators from 
Philadelphia and some of the surrounding counties 
followed his remains to their last resting place, on Lau- 
rel Hill, saw them laid in the famih^ tomb under the 
auspices of the world's great secret order that performs 
its last rites so well. Xow, although we have scarcely 
passed the thresliold of tlie present session, we notice 
his absence and miss his counsel. 

Therefore, Mr. President. I offer the following reso- 
lution. 

The resolution was twice read, considered, and agreed 
to, as follows : 



llnX. WILLIAM ELLIOTT. 



Iit'so/nd. Thai a cotiiinittcc of scxcii Sciialdis iM'.-ip- 
poiiitt'd to re})()rr tlie maniiei' in wliicli rlic Senuff' will 
express its loss, and llial sustained l)y tin:" C'oniinon- 
wealrli. in rlifdeaili of Ifon. William Kllioit. late 
Senator IVoin the Sixth district of Philadelphia. 

Second, That a si)eoial meetiii^u- of the Senate be 
held at tliree o'clock, i*. :>[., on Tliursdaj^ 20th instant, 
to receive the report and take such other action as may 
then seem proper. 

Ordered, That Messrs. Grady, Jt)nes, Herr, Wolver- 
ton, Hereter, Cochran, and Lee, be said committee. 



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Ijst the Senate. 
Thursday, January W^ 1881. 
The Pkesident. The special order for this after- 
noon session is the consideration of the report of 
the committee ajDpointed to prepare suitable resolu- 
tions in relation to the death of the late Senator 
Elliott. 

Mr. Grady. As chairman of that committee, I beg 
leave to submit the following report. 

The report was read as follows : 
To the Senate of Pennsylvania : 

The undersigned, appointed a committee to prepare 
some suitable testimony of our regard for our late col- 
league, the Honorable William Elliott, beg leave to 
submit the following minute and recommend its adop- 
tion : 

John C. Gkady, 

Horatio Gates Jones, 

A. J. Herr, 

S. P. Wolverton, 

Isaac Hereter, 

John Cochran, 

J. W. Lee. 



HON. WILLIAM ELLIOTT. 



Minute. 

Whereas, The Senate of Pennsylvania desires to 
testify tiieir regard for their respected friend and late 
fellow member, Honorable William Elliott, Senator 
from the Sixth district ; therefore, 

Resolmd, Tliat this body liereby records its high 
estimate of our late colleague as a man, a legislator 
and a friend ; that in the death of Senator Elliott the 
city of Philadelphia has lost one of its most honored 
and faithful citizens, who exhibited, in all the public 
positions he held, great perseverance of purpose and 
energy of mind ; the State of Pennsylvania an ever 
watchful legislator, and we, his associates, a genial 
companion and a warm friend. To his family his death 
is irreparable, for amid all his public duties Senator 
Elliott was a devoted husband and loving father. 

Resolved, That we convey to his family our high 
appreciation of the esteem which we bore towards 
our deceased colleague, and that in further token of 
our regard a copy of the foregoing proceedings, care- 
fully engrossed, after being signed by the President of 
the Senate and attested by the Clerk, be sent to the 
family of the deceased. 

The resolutions were read a second time. 

Mr. NoRKis. Mr. President, the death of the Senator 
to whom these resolutions apply is the occasion of my 
presence here, and it would be little respectful to the 



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district, which so often honored him, if I did not con- 
tribute some sliare, however humble, to the tribute 
which this body pays to his memory to-day. But 
other motives move me. In the life and character of 
Senator Elliott there are valuable lessons ; lessons 
which teach us what opportunities for wealth and dis- 
tinction exist in this country and under our institu- 
tions ; and what can be accomplished by a man with 
an unalterable purpose and a strong will. The early 
life of Senator Elliott was along the rugged and 
thorny paths of poverty, but the journey molded his 
habits and tempered his mind for the subsequent strug- 
gles of his life, out of which lie came with a large 
measure of wealth and no inconsiderable honor. He 
was a man that disdained, I might say, the refinements 
of debate. I have seen him, in the House of Repre- 
sentatives, come down from the Speaker's chair when 
that body was lashed into fury over the discussion of 
a measure in which its bitterest passions were enkin- 
dled ; when its best, most talented and most respected 
men were unheeded in their appeals and even scoffed 
at ; when decorum seemed to have been extinguished 
there, and the body was about almost to resolve itself 
into a mob — he came down from his chair, and with a 
few indignant sentences that burned and scathed as 
they leaped angrily from his lips, sent the whole body 
blushing to their seats. He was what we might call a 
strong man. He had, too, his passions and his prejudices, 



HON. WTLLI AM ELLIOTT. n 

and coi'it'siiiiiKliiiuly slroiii;- laltMils. lie Imi.'d mid he 
loved with like inronsity, and lie had in conseqiienoe 
bitter enemies and loyal friends, lie was always found 
in the front in a liuht, and disdaining the puny ways 
of strategy and the contrivances of cunning, he ])ared 
his breast to his foes, and dealt them blow for blow. 
He never held any equivocal position in any contest ; 
his friends and his enemies both knew where he was, 
and when he fell, he fell by the side of his standard. 
Such a man would be successful in any condition of 
life. Circumstances that shape and control the lives 
of so many men only strengthened and stiffened him 
for more exertion. As a member of councils in Phila- 
delphia, as high sheriff of that great city, as a member 
of the Legislature, in this Senate, in every place and 
in every exigency he displayed the same mental re- 
sources, the same undaunted spirit and the same un- 
conquerable will. Su(;h a man could not live in a great 
city like ours without occupying a large share of its 
confidence and respect, and it can be said of Senator 
Elliott that the confidence and the respect which that 
city did repose in him were never misplaced. I have 
said that his life is full of instruction and lessons for 
us ; it is to every youth in this land. The poor, lowly 
Irish boy, born in obscurity and cradled in jioverty, 
died after having filled many places of public trust in 
this State, and the possessorof nearly one million dol- 
lars. And he was stricken down, my fellow Senators, 



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by death, the inevitable so graphically described the 
other day by the eloquent Senator from Dauphin [Mr. 
Herr ;] and truly, in conclusion, I may say that an 
able man, a strong man, a brave man, fell when that 
fatal shaft from death's remorseless quiver pierced 
William Elliott's heart. 

Mr. Smith. Mr. President, I can hardly let this 
occasion pass without adding some tribute to the 
memory of the deceased Senator. The earliest re- 
collections of my childhood were of him. I remem- 
ber him, then, as a man, strong and brave, taking an 
active part in the affairs of the city of Philadelphia. 
Years rolled on, and I moved from that locality, and 
he remained. We seldom met until we met together 
in the halls of the coordinate branch of the Legisla- 
ture of Pennsylvania. We renewed the acquaintance 
of my boyhood days, and it lasted until the day he 
died. He returned to Philadelphia to receive the bene- 
fits and the confidence of the citizens of Philadelphia, 
who elected him to the high position of sheriff of that 
city ; and then retiring from that office, with all the 
honors that it could confer upon him, his fellow citi- 
zens unanimously sent him to the Senate of Pennsyl- 
vania, where he remained until the day of his death. 
I, with others, stood around his grave, and felt sad and 
mourned his loss. No one who ever knew him could 
possibly find any fault with his manner of fighting the 
battles of life. Nobody will ever accuse him of cow- 



HON. WTLLIAM ELLIOTT. IS 

anlice ; nobody ever acciistMl liini of doliii;' ;iiiyl liiiiu- un- 
fair or mijiist. He was a man of strict integrity, and 
died as lie had always lived, respected and admired 
by all. 

Mr. Cooper. Mr. President, I had known Mr. El- 
liott, in his legislative career, probably longer than 
any other in this chamber, unless it be the Senator 
from the First district, Mr. Smith. I knew him as a 
member, as Speaker of the House, and as a Senator. 
He Avas a man of high integrity — so high, indeed, that 
it needed no special professions of honesty to convince 
the world of the fact. He was likewise a man of high 
ability — that form of ability which could say much in 
few words ; possessing that form of sense known as 
common, but really uncommon in its strength. Too 
strong for the run of human kind — the world appro- 
priately describes this quality as "horse sense." Com- 
pared with that usually manifested, it Avas as sui:)erior 
in Mr. Elliott's mental composition, as the horse is 
superior to man, physically. He w^as active in all pub- 
lic affairs ; courageous always ; false never ! 

Mr. Hall. Mr. President, the custom which obtains 
in this and other like bodies of having memorial ser- 
vices in honor of a deceased colleague is an honorable 
one. Honorable as a matter of public policy, and to 
the survivors not only creditable, but profitable as well. 
What may be said of our deceased colleague is of the 
supremest indifference to him. He is beyond the reach 



14 O BIT UARY A D DRESSES. 

of our j')raise and of our criticism. But the considera- 
tion of his character may be profitable to us, for he had 
traits well worthy of our emulation. 

Two traits were prominent in the character of Sena- 
tor Elliott, as his character appeared to me. One 
was his courage. He had his own opinions and he 
maintained them, fearless alike of political foes and 
party friends, and without regard to the numerical 
odds that might be against him. No man or set of 
men could promise for him or pledge how he would 
vote, for although an ardent partisan, every measure 
had to be tested by his own judgment before he ac- 
corded it his support. 

The other trait to which I refer was as characteristic 
and still more exceptional — it was his directness of 
method. He made no concealment of his purposes, 
and he despised all indirection in their accomplishment. 
His manner was blunt and brusque, so much so as often 
to excite the indignation of his opponents, and yet the 
frankness with which he avowed his purposes, and the 
boldness and directness by which he sought their at- 
tainment, extorted admiration even from them. 

These traits, sir, are wortln^ of our emulation. I had 
known him for about ten years. I served with him 
also in the House as well as in the Senate. We were 
politically opposed to each other always. But we must 
have political parties. They are the very life of free 
institutions. The party in power can only be restrained 



HON. WILLIAM ELLIOTT. 16 

within pioitfi- hounds by the existence of a vigihmt mi- 
nority, exposing under the light of hostile investiga- 
tion every act of the administration and subjecting it 
to the severest criticism. But while we must have 
political parties, it would be well if men in public life 
would always have independence of opinion, the cour- 
age to maintain their own opinions, and would be frank 
and open in their methods of political warfare. 

In short, Mr. President, to make a closer application, 
it would be better for us, more honorable for us and 
for the Commonwealth we serve, if we were more im- 
bued with these traits of our deceased colleague — cour- 
age of purpose and directness of method. 

Mr. Hekr. Mr. President, there is something worse 
than death. True, the thought of it sends a shiver, 
and we instinctively shrink when it is named ; the 
funeral procession and wide-gaping grave, and the 
crawling worm, the dark stillness, deeper than silence, 
smite the heart of the living with dreadful fear. And 
yet does not the gay flower bloom over the grave ? does 
the dew forget to kiss it, or the stream to bathe the 
turf, or the delicate, mysterious, most fantastic hoar- 
frost fail to deck the narrow bed where lies in rest the 
pilgrim's head ? And what is life i A gulf of troubled 
waters, where the soul, like a vexed bark, is tossed 
upon the waves of pain and pleasure by the hot breath 
of passion. And so, whilst we nuiy love and be en- 
tranced by this life, yet there are, I repeat, some things 



16 OB ITU A RY A D DRESSES. 

worse than death ; the loss of personal honor is one. 
For if, Mr. President, that be gone, what beanty is 
there in life that we should desire it 'I or what parent 
would not rather lay his child under the sod than have 
it live to wallow in immoralities, breeding pestilence in 
social life, to swell the turbid current of indecency and 
corruption ? Surely, death is to be preferred to that. 
The Greeks personified death by a beautiful boy, 
crowned with immortal youth ; and the young man 
who stands upon the threshold of life, with the blood 
bounding in his veins and his heart like a nest of sing- 
ing birds, looks out upon the future as upon a splen- 
did picture seen beneath a rosy atmosphere. He hears 
the tinkling of musical bells, he scents the perfume 
of rare flowers, and the dainty arm of love beckons him 
on to a land of beauty. But soon stern reality disen- 
chants him ; the vision fades into thin air, leaving not 
a track behind it. He soon finds that where he ex- 
pected bread he received a stone, a serpent instead of 
a fish. He soon discovers that many things, passing 
as true coin, had a false and hollow ring in this life. 
He tested friendship, and was dismayed and appalled 
to learn that, at the slightest stress, the chord of friend- 
ship was snapped. Aye, he even tests love ; and be- 
neath the smile, he has recognized grinning selfishness, 
and, perhaps, infidelity. He may sound the shoals 
and depths of the sea of glory, and he beholds upon 
its deceitful bosom the battered hulks and broken 



HON. WIL L TA M EL L 10 TT. 17 



Avivcks of iiiaiiy nil aidciil soul thai sailed fioiii |>i»rt, 
rich ill hope, briglit in anticipafiou, ulorious in aspira- 
tion. So he, before tlie lilies of time have iimcli 
whitened his head, discovers sorrow fully and sadly 
that there are things worse than death. And yet, j\[r. 
President, those experiences are not, in the economy 
of the Providence that rules and governs this world, 
without their advantage, if we accept in humility the 
deep lessons they are designed to convey. For the re- 
verses, the disappointments the shocks, the defeated 
ambitions, the sorrowing and grief that we all must 
encounter in the journey spoken of by the Senator from 
Philadelphia [Mr. Nokris,] are the material out of 
which character is formed. The oak is fertilized by 
the fallen leaves and broken boughs, and thus from it- 
self and out of itself it grows into sturdy strength and 
magnificent proportions. And so it is that these dis- 
appointments, defeated ambitions, toil and care, trouble 
and woe, go to make up and build and mold the true 
man as he is, and not what he seems to be. The en- 
vironments, the surroundings, the associations, the op- 
portunities, referred to by the Senator from Thiladel- 
phia [Mr. Norris,] are the things that go to meas- 
ure the man and give us a standard by \\\\w\i we can 
judge him. Sir Thomas Brown, a scholar and a met- 
aphysician and a poet, once remarked that: ''I am 
esteemed too poorly by those who are afar off ; I am 

esteemed too highly by those who are too near."" 
3 



18 OB ITU A RY A DDRESSES. 

Mr. President, we are not so far off from this dead 
Senator that we cannot detect his defects, nor so near 
that we cannot see his virtues and his merits, for he 
had those marked and pronounced. He was, accord- 
ing to my recollection, no half-way man, but a positive 
man, as has been so well described by the Senator from 
Philadelphia, [Mr. Norris.] He had that rugged com- 
mon sense that enabled him to guide and direct his 
action with a peculiarly accurate judgment. He was 
endowed with that well-balanced combination of facul- 
ties which result in what is generally called sound 
common sense, a thing more frequently spoken of 
than met with, although so dogmatically claimed by 
so many. He had a genius for business, and in every 
department of life that he entered he mastered, con- 
quered, and understood the details and the difficulties, 
and the result of that good common sense, that jDeculiar 
judgment, I gather from the remarks of the Senator 
from Philadelphia [Mr. Norris,] eventuated in amass- 
ing a million of dollars and establishing a reputation 
that his friends may be proud of. So, then, he, having 
started from poverty and having been nursed in the 
cradle of want, pursued his pathway through this life, 
stormy and rugged, as we have been told it was, having 
to pass into himself all the consistency, the resolution 
and virtue that that progress through that hard and 
harsh path imparted to him. Therefore, these attri- 
butes, powers, and merits of his character necessarily 



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express themselves in tirni fidelity to frieiulsliii), ^cii- 
erous forgiveness, niul a hand open as day. 

The brilliant qualities of the diamond are only shown 
forth wlien the wheel of the lapidary strikes it, and 
the true and good qualities of William Elliott oidy 
became conspicuous when the needs and necessit^ies of 
a friend stirred the depths of his robust nature. It is 
true that he never deserted a friend, but he did not 
always strike a foe, especially if he was down. And 
it is, then, no wonder that he, in the confidence of the 
people who knew him, was called to fill positions of 
honor and of trust; and it is no wonder that each and 
all of these trusts Avere discharged and executed b}" 
him with native integrity of chaiactei'. And so it is, 
as the Senator fi-om Elk [Mr. IIall| has intimated, 
that whilst the dull, cold ear of death can hear no fiat- 
tery, nor be disturbed b}- the tumultuous convulsions 
of this world, yet that the lesson is for the living, and 
the example is for our advantage. And so, then, ex- 
tracting the best lesson we can from the life of this 
dead Senator, we can only hope that after life's fitful 
fever he may sleep well, and that should be the prayer 
for each of us to be commended to the love aiul friend- 
ship and api:)reciation of each other. For the silver 
cord will soon be loosened and the golden Ixnvl be 
broken, and we, too, shall "pass over to thf majoiity" 
that Carlyle speaks of. AVIkmi l AVhere ? How '. is still 
the secret of eternity ; but the shroud is weaving now, 



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and the bell of time is tolling for some of ns. Be ye, 
therefore, ready ! 

Mr. Holbein. Mr. President, I intend to pay but a 
brief tribute to the memory of our late associate. 

Senator Elliott, though not without his faults (and 
no one is,) was an excellent and most remarkable man 
in many respects. I knew him personally only since 
the beginning of the session of 1879 ; but I knew of 
him for many years. I shall speak of him only touch- 
ing my knowledge of him whilst I knew him person- 
ally. 

I always esteemed him very highly. Although he 
belonged to a different political organization from what 
I did and still do, yet I cannot say that he was not re- 
spected by his political opponents. He certainly had 
my good opinion. 

He was extreme in his political proclivities and views, 
and his convictions could not be changed. Everybody 
knew where to find him. To look for him on the fence 
was the wrong place. He represented but one side of 
a question, whether political or otherwise. When he 
said yes, he meant yes ! and when he said no, he meant 
no ! I considered him the most courageous man on 
this floor. He was fearless in everything he did. He 
was not an enemy in ambush. He was an open oppo- 
nent in everything he did, fearing neither persons nor 
consequences. It cannot be said of him that he be- 
came all things to all men. In short, he was one of the 



HON. WIl. L 1A M EL L TO TT. 



most, positive, cinphalic, and outspokcii Sciuitors of 
tlie session of 1870. He had no fears of tlie lions in 
his patli. He coidd tiiithfully say — 

" Wliat man dare, I dare!" 

He was independent and self-reliant. He flattered 
nobody to obtain Ids influence. 

"He would not flatter Neptune for liis trident, 
Or Jove for his power to thunder." 

Senator Elliott had decided abilities. He was clear 
in his arguments, and had great mental and physical 
force. His arguments were always noted for the sira- 
pleness of style and forcible expressions. There was 
nothing studied about them. He hated hypocrisy, and 
had no toleration for a man that flinched on a question. 

He had very sterling qualities of mind and character. 
He was a leader among leaders. Men of such qualities 
are always respected by honest people, and feared by 
cowards. 

Though the deceased was very strong in his convic- 
tions, and entirely fearless at all times and under all 
circumstances, he was, at the same time, a kind man, 
an obliging, and an agreeable comj^anion. 

Mr. Newell. Mr. President, I deem it my duty, 
as one of the colleagues of Senator Elliott, to say a 
few words in regard to so kind a friend as he was to 
me. I became acquainted with Senator Elliott shortly 
after the adjouinment of the last House of Represent- 
atives in which he had been a member. He came back 



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to our city and became a candidate for sheriff, and it 
was my good fortune to enlist under his banner and to 
assist him to the attainment of that high office. From 
that day, to the day of his death, he was one of my 
warmest, one of my firmest friends. Had I a battle, 
William Elliott was by my side ; had I need of a 
friend, the late Senator Elliott was at the front. All 
the way through from that time, until within a few 
weeks of his death, I had the pleasure repeatedly of 
meeting and talking with him. Unbroken from the 
start until the close, our friendship lasted, in fact, I 
may say increased. In the summer of 1879, 1 met him 
at Atlantic City. He was then an invalid and felt that 
he was fast a]3proacliing the glories of that better land 
for which he seemed to have a longing. I tried to 
speak words of encouragement to him, bade him look 
up, take courage ; he was still a young man, compara- 
tively speaking ; he was of strong, robust constitution 
and doubtless would again recover his good health. 
Senators, I shall never forget his reply ; said he, "I 
am sliding down the hill, I am nearing the dark waters 
of the river of death, and I have no fears of its ter- 
rors." 

In losing him I lost a friend. In losing him the city 
of Philadelphia lost a man of whom she was proud. 
In losing him the State of Pennsylvania lost a legis- 
lator that will be missed in these halls. In losing him 
his family meet with an irreparable loss that can never 



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be replaced to I hem iiiilil they meet :i_i;':iiii l)ey<>ii(l that 
th)\ving river, known as the river of death. Let me 
express the hope here and now lliat lie is safely housed 
with that Father who has so carefully watched over 
us, and that when we come to die, we may be enabled 
to say as he did, that we have no terrors awaiting us. 
The question being, 

Will the Senate agree to adopt the report of the 
committee ? 

The yeas and naj^s were required by Mr. Lawkknce 
and Mr. Guady, and were as follow, viz : 

Yeas — Messrs. Alexander, Arnholt, Beidelman, 
Cochran, Cooper, Craig, Davies, Emery, Everhart, 
Gordon, Grady, Greer, Grof, Hall, Hereter, Herr, Hol- 
ben, Jones, Kauffman, Keefer, Lantz, Laird, Lawrence, 
Lee, McCracken, McHenry, McKnight, McNeill, Mylin, 
Nelson, Newmyer, Norris, Parker, Reyburn, Roberts, 
Ross, Seamans, Shearer, Sill, Smiley, Smith, Stewart, 
Thomas, Upi)erman, Wolverton and Newell, Presldod 
pro tern. — 4G. 

Nays — None. 

So the question was determined in the affirmative. 
The preamble was read, as follows : 

Whereas, The Senate of Pennsylvania desires to 
testify their regard for their respected friend and late 
fellow member, Honorable William Elliott, Sena- 
tor from the Sixth district ; therefore. 
The question being. 



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Will the Senate agree to the preamble ? 
It was agreed to. 

The business for which this session was fixed having 
been transacted, the President adjourned the Senate 
until to-morrow morning; at ten o'clock. 




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